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LinuxPadawan 04-10-2005 09:58 PM
Something strange in the terminal
 
There is something strange in the terminal. It seems that it just waits a split second and comes back with the same prompt. when I tryed installing a program I typed:

[user@localhost My documents]$ su –c”./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin”

I press enter and it shows this again.

[user@localhost My documents]$

Why?

nadroj 04-10-2005 10:17 PM
what does -c do? have you tried doing this without -c and without the quotes?
Code:
su ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin
what is the output from the following command:
Code:
ls /pathToParentFolder/RealPlayer10GOLD.bin

camelrider 04-11-2005 07:40 AM
I think the quotes are because the filename contains a space.

reddazz 04-11-2005 07:47 AM
Re: Something strange in the terminal
 
Quote:
Originally posted by LinuxPadawan
There is something strange in the terminal. It seems that it just waits a split second and comes back with the same prompt. when I tryed installing a program I typed:

[user@localhost My documents]$ su –c”./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin”

I press enter and it shows this again.

[user@localhost My documents]$

Why?
Your command is almost right, you just need to put a space between "c" and the first quotation mark. eg

Code:
$su -c "./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin"


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